Hi!

I’ve been working on a tool that makes testing and hosting servers a lot easier. Hopefully it will enable more people to create multiplayer games next LD.

All you have to do is download and run it, enter the port your game runs on (locally) and it’ll give you an address you can share with people anywhere so that they can connect to your server. Unlike programs like Hamachi, players don’t need to download anything extra. You’ll get a a grappl.io:????? address, with a randomized port number. It works by routing data through the grappl.io server as a proxy of sorts.

I’ll post it again around the next jam when it’s more stable, but right now it’s still very in-development. It should work just fine in it’s current state, however.

Website: http://grappl.io

Direct link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34769058/grappl/GrapplClient.jar

Source: https://github.com/Cactose/Grappl